no English to Greek - only actual Bible verses as
examples/exercises

THIS IS A SELF-TEACHING GUIDE AND CLASSROOM TEXTBOOK which
takes complete beginners in Greek, and leads them right through
to where they start reading the New Testament (NT) for
themselves in the original 'koine' Greek - and understanding it.

Now in its 5th edition, completely revised and updated, this
book has long been a trailblazer in applying linguistic science
to the understanding and teaching of New Testament Greek.

It is more than an introduction to New Testament Greek. It
contains more than the elements, more than the basics of New
Testament Greek.

The book explains each unit of grammar in logical sequence,
paying particular attention to how the language works, and
aiming at student understanding:

• it illustrates
each point of grammar with examples from the Greek New Testament
(GNT),

• it reinforces
learning by asking the student (in the Student Workbook) dozens
of questions about the grammar of each Lesson,

• it provides
translation exercises: overall, some hundreds of verses from the
Greek New Testament itself.

These verses illustrate point by point the grammar which is
being taught, and contain the vocabulary to be learnt (including
all 300 of the most common Greek words in the Greek New
Testament).

This book uses no made-up sentences of pseudo-Greek for
illustration or translation (only NT examples in the original
Greek).

Learn To Read the Greek New Testament also contains a
book-within-a-book (Appendix B) to provide assistance for those
engaged in the teaching of New Testament Greek. Furthermore,
this 336-page Grammar Book comes shrink-wrapped with a Student
Workbook containing 90 fill-in-the-answer questions for each
Lesson – a valuable aid to learning, focusing on the main
grammatical points of that Lesson. For teachers and students
working on their own, an optional Teacher’s
Edition of the Students’ Workbook is available
with all the answers filled in.

The author - Dr B Ward Powers - received his B.A. in Greek from
the University of Sydney, his M.A. in Linguistic
Science from the University of Reading, U.K., and his B.D. (with
First Class Honours) and Ph.D. (for New Testament research) from
the University
of London.
For twelve years he served on the faculty of the Sydney
Missionary and BibleCollege, Croydon, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, for
most of this time in charge of the Department of New Testament
Language and Literature. Since 1996 he has been Director of Tyndale College,
the Australasian Open College of Theology.

SOME EXAMPLES of just a few of the features of this book:

• Each Greek verb is capable of having up to 507 different
grammatical forms. (This information is set out in Appendix C.)
How would a native Greek speaker have known the meaning of any
one of these forms when hearing that form for the first time? Answer:through recognizing the “meaning bit” of the word (which
gives its dictionary meaning), and the “grammatical bits” that
have been added on (and which identify that word’s function in
any particular grammatical use). The student is taught how
to recognize verb forms and meaning in the same way.

• The Third Declension of Greek nouns is a notoriously
difficult section of grammar to understand. Greek has twenty
regular patterns for nouns of the Third Declension, and there
are many common “irregulars”. This book sets out (Appendix D)
all twenty regular patterns, shows how they are derived by six
simple linguistic rules from four basic patterns - and then
discusses one by one all of the Third Declension irregulars that
occur in the Greek New Testament. This quite takes all the
mystery out of the Third Declension.

• When you apply linguistic analysis to the forms of the aorist
active tense of Greek verbs, it turns out that there are three
patterns of conjugating this tense in Greek - that is, there is
a first aorist, a second aorist, and a third aorist.

• Greek word order is often very different from English word
order, and has different significance. The student is shown
(Appendix A) how to recognize the pattern of Greek word order in
a sentence, and how to translate this into English word order.

HOW TO PURCHASE THIS BOOK

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The Beginner's Course
(with additional helps in Appendix A for students working on
their own, or requiring the lessons to be broken into smaller
steps)

The Intermediate Course,
Parts 1 and 2 (with the Reference Section giving a
systematic presentation in Appendices C and D of all the
paradigms of Conjugation and Declension, and Explanations in
Appendix E of how the Greek language functions)

Teacher's Manual
(Appendix B) on how to teach New Testament Greek according
to modern linguistic principles

Also: Details of
irregular words in the New Testament; statistics on word numbers
in each paradigm category, and word frequencies in the New
Testament; Greek word lists and indices to references in this
book to each Greek word, and an Index to Topics.